[MR] RE: heraldry

[Noel Evans]

In agreement with the below information, Why wouldn't a hot wax 
printer produce as non-fading a picture as a wax crayola crayon? 
Seems like they are the same thing to me.


>When your printer carts run dry, reload them with water soluble
>acrylics, metallic inks, or your choice of permanent, non-fading,
>inks. If you are willing to toss the cart in thinner when it is not in
>use (test on a deceased cart because mineral spirits dissolve some
>plastics) you can load the things with enamel paint. Any hot wax
>printer, such as the big Techtronics, will put out a non-fading image.
>I do photo-quality, non-fading, prints with a TechColor roll dye-sub
>printer. Minimal warm-up time compared to the printers that use actual
>colored wax sticks and have to melt them. Works on paper or on iron-on
>stock.
>
>I'd consider the 'wet test'. If the print smears when you check it
>with a damp fingertip, it will fade. A simple, no water soluble inks,
>rule would solve that problem.
>
>FWIW: Why are we saving hard copy long enough for the ink to fade?
>Wouldn't a scanned data base of images and data using a common
>program, like Access, be more convenient? Make it doable to use a
>keyword search on charge and/or fields. Burn an annual CD for sale to
>the masses for $10 or so for a fund raiser.
>
>		Taras
>
>
>
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>If someone were to come up with color printer inks that did not fade,
>this
>problem might be alleviated, but until then we are stuck doing it by
>hand.
>
>In fact, only certain brands of markers are allowed for colouring, for
>the
>same reason.
>
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